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fox news channel. have a great week and we'll see you next "fox news sunday." >> as i think back 25 years ago before the contract with america. the thing that strikes me is for 40 years one party had a month moply. it's always inevitably bad for you any system to have that long-run monopoly of power. >> it's a struggle over who are we, what are we going to do, how are we going to use resources. who will have power over you. for 40 years the democrats effectively and intelligently sustained their control of the house. if republicans wanted to be a
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majority they had to learn to be big enough, tough enough, they big enough, tough enough, they had they had to learn to communicate as a team. the question was, could you put together over time and effort that gave the american people a credible alternative(r that they could win the house and govern the country. >> the origins of the contract with america, i think the saying is success has a thousand fathers. >> the story of the contract with america begins with newtth gingrich. it's almost unheard of for somebody to run three times to win a congressional seat.
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but it became clear when newt came to congress he was impatient and wanted to get things done. >> the story starts with ronald reagan and a commitment to big ideas like national security, stronger economy. thing that were in reagan speeches. >> we are proud to do this and think it's something that's long overdue. >> we had a concept of the house and senate cats come together. and d the -- the senate candidates comenn together. and i got assigned the job of making it happen. i was the chairman of the planning committee. for the first time in american history we had all the candidates standing together. it always stuck in my head that you could create a national wave and build it around themes that were so popular that people in
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the end would decide they were for your candidates just because the particular positions were so strong. the contract without reagan as the forerunner is impossible. >> by 1988 when president bush got elected. there were a lot of people who would havept voted forward reagn for a third term. only one time since franklin roosevelt did one party keep the party for a third term in the white house. >> the house, we won the majority. no republican had been a committee chairman. few republican bills passed the house of representatives. there was very little policy role for the minority party.
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there was a frustration. most of of the members would never serve in the majority party during their congressional careers. >> if you don't think you can win the majority, how will you win the majority. >> the old bulls in our party decided they could live with the democrats and get a certain percentage of each bill and help change the direction without the coming majority. that was the concept that we hoped to break up and we believed the only way you made a realho difference and brought rl conservative policies to the country was to be in the majority. >> i was the one person with the drive and determination and persistence that we might eventually get there. >> he was somebody who aspired to leadership, and then others joined him and his conservative
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movement. but also his movement to change the house of representatives. >> it was great respect for bob michael. for the house republican leader at the time. but he t was a different generation from newt gingrich and dick armey and tom delay and john kasich who were the driving force of the contract with america. >> i think bob michael started every day with the fact we were the minority. not to be the leader of the opposition trying to become a majority. my job was to force a majority. his e job was to help the president of the united states with the majority. with the majority. >> political influence. and we knew a change was coming. when congressman cheney was elected whip, we knew we had a team player. he made it clear to leader
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michael, i'm on your team, whatever you need me to do i will do it. at that point bob still had control over his leadership. then when george herbert walker bush picked dick cheney to become his secretary of defense, become his secretary of defense, that michael because he opened up the whip position, and everyone knew that newt was salivating, and had a burr under his saddle to run for leadership. and the second most of powerful leadership position on the republican side was the whip job. >> he called and said the president nominated dick cheneyy to be secretary of defense. he said who will replace him? he said who will replace him? >>
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thrower and it will be difficult to get the votes. >> by monday morning i had 55 votes. i was the last thing michael wanted in the leadership becaue i represented total destruction. iis was walk or to the republicn club thinking i would either win or spend two years breaking up the establishment. >> a number of people who voted for him were people who said we have been here too long in the minority. we have have more activism, we have to have a majority. >> i was nominated by a moderate from minnesota. seconded by olympia snow, a moderate from maine. the third person was the conservative from arkansas but
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very senior. so my three people who spoke for me signaled to the party a breath of support that was very unusual. >> i get emotional talking about it. it was the moment we knew this was over. and we won the internal fight which had taken decade. >> millions of you came together to take your country back. >> ross perot started a movement, both parties aren't doing their job. middle america is missing out on everything. he gave voice to this. he got 1% o -- he got 19% of the vote in '92. and he's the reason bush lost and clinton became president.
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>> would you please raise your right hand and repeat after me. i william jefferson clinton do solemnly swear -- >> bill clinton was elected president. it was the first off-year election where democrats controlled all of government probably since jimmy carter. but the voters were not happy from the beginning of 1993 because it turns out that clinton is talking about his economic plan. he's talking about a gigantic tax increase. and some other policies like the midnight basketball for convicts and things like that were not popular. >> bob michael announces he's retiring at the end of 1994. newt is the number two republican in the house party. he becomes the heir-apparent pretty fast.
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nixon in new york to get his advice. he said, you know, when i was in the house in the 1940s, the house republicans were very boring. and they have been boring ever since. if you want to become a majority you have to be interesting. i recommend you find some people who are willing to be interesting, and you get together regularly and think through how to be interesting, then you reinforce each other so you are a group. >> we held a series of talks to talk through how we would make this incl to a successful revolution. >> that group would form the nuclear has of the leadership -- the leadership. >> we had a shot at becoming
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the majority if we were a team. but we had to decide to be a team. that was the key moment. if he came back and said i can't be on a team it would have been hard to put it together. >> the people i remember being there are dick armey, tom delay, bill paxton, newt and myself. >> we thought we could work together and work together and not cut andio run. >> with four friends meet a lion, they kill the lion. >> it was the late winter, early spring when the planning began iin earnest.
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it's not just going to be bumper sticker. >> he said if this is going to be real we have to have bills that willlo be introduced. >> you have to have a short enough list that your members can learn it and a long enough list that people don't get bored. >> getting the numbers corralled and coming up with a work product with the specifics of the contract with america. >> it took a motivational leader. dick army is committed to policies. it motivated their colleagues and the staff that worked for them. >> i thought of armey as the chief operating officer. he said when you say we'll do
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it, that always means me. >> we tried to make it a collaborative effort with house republicans. after almost four years at that point of democrats being the majority, there was a lot of legislation bottled up that was popular legislation. >> we had a standard that said you had to have 70% of the country being polled that they supported the agenda item. >> the contract had ten planks, but they were 60-70 individual bills wrapped up. each contract item might have four, five, 60s, seve -- five, , seven bills rolled into one.
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>> i heard it would not be -- i would say over half of the members at that time, but it sounded craze asky to newt, so what do we care. >> there was a reaction to the clinton presidency after they passed their tax bill. candidates were worried about the direction of the country and their children's future. fact is, every insurance company hopes you drive safely.
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it's the fiercest violence in history and it comes near the' 0th verse are you of the founding of china. >> one of the things about doing a contract, nobody really believed we had a chance at it. but there were a handful of warriors who said yes we can do this. we knew if we took the house, we could demonstrate clear differences not only between republican policy and democratic policy,e but the way republicas would manage their responsibility. >>at they had to be simple enouh to be understood by the average candidate and had to make sense to the average person in simple, direct language. >> the big idea was to put an ad in tv guide.
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we had a wide circulation at the time and very middle class, working class voters.ar >> most of people don't even know what a tv guide is anymore. but at the time it was the largest publication in the country. everybody got a tv guide. >> you could 8 up. on the back it listed every piece of the contract and a place to check off if they did what they said. >> here are our 10 things, as we do them, check them off. done done done. the focus groups when we tested the ad. one part of the contract that had great appeal was the line that says if we break this contract, throw us out, we mean it. >> that was a breakthrough. candidates would say on the stump. >> b within 100 days, if you dot have 10 checkmarks, we don't
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deserve to hold office. >> people did 8 out and kept track. >> we led off with a balanced budget amendment to the constitution. ross perot performed so well as a third party candidate and a lot of his focus was concern about the deficit. a lot of those voters were disaffected republicans. we wanted to get those voters back and demonstrate a commitment to balancing the budget and fiscal responsibility. >> the american people regard balancing the budget as a moral issue. >> we take back the treats plank was born out of concern that we weren't doing enough to pretext american citizens. >> we were in the middle of a
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huge crime wave. rudy giuliani was elected mayor of new york because people felt unsafe going into the city. we were responding to a deep public perception that we had lost control of the streets. lost control of the streets. important pieces was the welfare reform proposal. a personal responsibility act. thewe president didn't get the welfare reform done the first twopl years. it was tide to the medicaid reform. >> the republican welfare reform bill drafted as an alternative to the democrats bill was not acceptable. we wanted a different approach. at the time what members thought would be most of effective was helping people see the dignity of work and requiring people on
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welfare to work. not because it would save money though it would, it would save yosave -- save lives and change lives. the child adoption tax credit. republicans were by and large opposed to abortion. but you need to be in favor of adoption. >> i was adopted. we had on thered people who were adopted. i we believed adoption wasb dramatically better than abortion. we wanted to make it easy and desirable for people to adopt children.4 >> one of the things that drove the mid-term in 1994 was the reaction to a couple things president trump had done in office. he had run on middle class tax
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relief as a centrist democrat, and when he got in office, the pressure on him to raise taxes, he gave into it and that created backlash. backlash. we were and said we'll repeal the tax increases p and provide tax cuts to hard-working americans and restore the american dream. we wanted to correct the penalty againstsa married couples in the tax code. and education savings accounts. the national security restoration act was that we didn't want tola be the world's policeman. we needed national security in the united states first and less involved in multi-national
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e acekeeping missions. >> we didn't want american military forces under united nations command. the democrats considered the military budget as a piggy bank and they were underfunding defense. it was a serious problem. >> we want everything to be 70-80 percent supported by the public. down the road it became an important feature. because they left certain things out. >> the challenges of getting l everybody on board were severe because literally there were big pieces of the entire republican agenda left out of the contract. (client's voice) remember that degree you got in taxation?
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- we blocked school prayer, which i believe in, >> we spent a lot of time on how thing should be drafted. >> we blocked school prayer and right to life because the "new york times" would have attacked us as a right-wing group. >> let's look to adirect republicans, smart-thinking democrats and independents. >> the senior citizens fairness act, we wanted to reach the seniors facing financial difficulties. one was long-term care. but also we wanted to increase the earnings limit for those on execution security where you could make more while receiving social security and not be -- not be penalized. >> create opportunities to keep
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saving all your life. and an attitude to empower and support senior citizens in leading the best possible life. >> the job creation was the most of polarizing because of the capital gains tax and tax cuts for theal rich. >> this was designed to show wem care about small businesses. small businesses create most of of the jobs in the united states. corporations shrink jobs. >> part of the motivation of the contract was a sense that we had gotten to a point where we were taxing too much, litigating too much. the litigation reform was to address the fact that we were
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too litigious. and there were otherral tesh toughs to deal with some of those problems. >> this was around the time of the mcdonald's coffee cup incident.nt a customer got a piping hot cup ocupof coffee and drove off witt in their lap and it spilled and burned them. >> this is actually the provision that got haley barber to buy in. all conservative republicans despise the trial lawyer, sue everybody. the commercial comes on and says hi, i bet you know somebody who should sue. why don't you call us. we think it's destructive of society. we think it's destructive of the
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economy. it sets the wrong tone for a free society. someone of the reasons we had the citizens legislature act was we wanted to send a signal we were with the public in terms of disdain for career politicians. we thought it would be healthy if this were not a life-time year for people. if you had a limit of two terms in the house or six terms in the congress. >> this was a hot button in '94 because people were so mad at the congress and the various scandals. people wanted to clean the place up. they had given up on the hope we could ever win. there was a nationwide move for term limits.
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>> on september 27, it all came together and a beautiful, sunny day, and people cameth from all over the country to stand in unison we'll do this. if you win we'll make this commitment so we will be able to deliver on the commitment if you vote for us. give us this chance. >> the idea for bringing all these people to washington who were candidates was for some training. how to respond to that. we knew the media would look for the weakest link to paint the contract in a negative light. campaign on it. run on it. >> what i look on with the most of pride.n the rhetoric was all positive. there was nothing to be considered a negative campaign attack. it's all about what republicans stood for, what republicans would do.
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they guaranteed it and said if you don't do it, throw us out. >> we offer this contract as a first step toward renewing american civilization. i'm going to sign the contract now as the last member to do so on behalf of the republican conference. >> it was like a booster rocket. it gave everybody momentum for the home stretch. and that's important, to have that sense that we can win and we are going to win. >> our biggest fear was nobody would notice it. >> in terms of the marketing, this was before social media. you had to rely on more traditional media, and the contract with america was a hook for the traditional media. the democrats played into it and helped us because they attacked it and generated media. >> we think when people
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(rock music) (patriotic music) - election night was one of those magic moments that they never thought they'd see. >> election night was one of those magic moments they never thought they would see. you can go out tonight and find people who can tell you where they were and what they were doing. it imprinted on people we can win. >> it was a feeling of elation. i had been doing congressional races. and in '94 we actually got there. >> this is an understatement of the day. it's a knockout. >> we won 54 senators.
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it was a big, big deal. >> call it wall, an quake, are blowout. as they say in the midwest, we got ourme butts kicked. >> we saw we would be majority. i called newt to say to him, congratulations, mr. speaker. >> you know you become a >> you know you become a household and "saturday night live" starts poking fun at you. >> it was pretty hard work. there was a lot of change we were about to implement, taking over the house for the first time in 40 years. >> the partnership, but with purpose, i pass this great gavel of our government with resignation, but with resolve.
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i hereby end 40 years of democratic rule of this house. >> it was a change of command ceremony. and i need to do the best i can and i need to do the best i can >> the gentleman from georgia, newt gingrich. >> i was shaped my my years in the infantry, sense of duty, honor, country. it was a very touching moment. >>ap we probably had the longest opening day in congressional history. >> theow house will be in order. >> we knew it would be hard, but we had no idea how hard it would actually be. >> i should have recognized it when we used this 100-day mantra we were not calculating in how much time it takes to take a bill into committee, have it in
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subcommittee and the floor committee. >> there were celebrations every time we passed a plank. >> i'm now going to have a hole punched in the card. >> he would go to the floor and pull out his tv guide insert. >> we are trying to make people understand we were doing what we promised. >> the bill is passed. >> one of the smart things dick armey's people did -- >> 2/3 of those present having voted ind the affirmative, the joint resolution is passed. a motion to reconsider is laid on the table. >> as time went on that's when it got more difficult. >> i voted with many republicans for a balanced budget amendment.
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butce i did not do that to see this kind of irresponsible spending take place in this chamber. >> the joint resolution is not passed. >> there was a concern with an amendment to the constitution given the high bar the founders put inet place to get it even acted.vi but we were careful to point out we didn't promise to get it done, but we would pass it off the house floor which we were able to do. >> we just had to make sure all the procedural things were in place. the first three or four planks of the contract the democrats didn't put up much of a fight. they could tell welfare reform was where they would draw the line and put up a big fight. granted. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪
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white house staff reached out to me and said would you like to sit down and talk about this welfare reform thing and work out a bill you think the president could sign. >> i'm very prepared to cooperate with the clinton administration. i am not prepared to compromise. >> i didn't want to be rude so i said no, i can't do it. they said that's what we promise to do, we have to. i said i understand the president would like to know negotiate a bill, but i can't do it. let's pass arbel and see what boppens in the senate. if people want to sit down and talk to the white house, that's fine. >> the bill passes, it's laid upon the table. [applause] >> ultimately, we passed 70% of the contract into law, but
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it took months to do it and those were months of a great deal of frustration. >> you said you do it in a hundred days, you did it in 93 days. >> we got pins that fed promises made, promises kept. >> those were an amazing first hundred days. [applause] >> a former staffer called me one day and said we've got chris farley on saturday night live, would you like to have a conference. farley was in the back room with his new gear on. >> we would like to introduce the speaker of the house, gentlemen from georgia, newt gingrich two john boehner is opening and introducing him and i asked him to come up and speak and two seconds later. [applause]
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[applause] >> now they know there's two of you. that's how you-- get so much work done. >> all democrats are officially weird. all in favor to knock the contract mattered because it embodied the idea that you could actually be fore! something positive in an organized way. >> all in favor, all right. all opposed, you know what, i don't care. you don't get to vote. >> the contract in republican circles is considered kind of a psychotic moment, in some ways it kicked off the year were in now in terms of the lision of the economic conservatism and the populism as well but i think for the most part it's a reminder that good policy is good politics. >> pipe down. but. >> think about it this way.s this said to every candidate,
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d is is what we are going to promise to the american people what we become the majority, we will deliver, and that happened. and that really formed a bond between the republicans of s congress and the american people. >> all right. hr 631, motion to make sunny a -- sunn sunny bono. and saying i've got you newt gingrich. >> it had never been done before and never been down since. >> he had the contract on the republican party. it's one of the more. profound moments in american political history and it creates the basisbe of a modern republican party big enough toa? compete head-to-head with the democrats which we had not been since 1930.
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[inaudible] all in favor, there you go. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> good evening and welcome to the next revolution. i'm steve hilton. in this of all weeks, pro- america. tonight we will bring you the smartest and most comprehensive impeachment coverage you will find anywhere. to make sense of it all i'll be joined by a fantastic lineup marsha blackburn, jason chase oates and kennedy. the constitution gives congress the power to remove a president before their term is up. they said he committed treasobe
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